defensive stocks also helped you push the asx 200 higher. sensex trading lower by 0.3%. back to you. >> all right. here we are european stocks, first trading day of december, an hour and ten minutes in to the session. not bad last month. ftse up 1.5%. we're weighted to the up side a little bit more than 7:2, advancers outpacing decliners on the stoxx 600. ftse up 1.5% last month, dax up 2, contact 340 up nearly 4%, xetra dax up 0.4%. the ibex fairly flat. let's show you where we are with bond rates, as well. we'll take a look at gilts. slightly lower, 1.77%. big day for uk. manufacturing pmis out for the month of november. italian and ten year sbpanish yields are also lower. down on the greek announcements, but substantially below 6%. ten year bunds 1.37%. those yields slightly higher. on the currency markets, we talked about this euro-dollar six week high. below that at the moment, but not by much. dollar-yen moving off the 7 1/2 month high at 82.17. aussie dollar weaker despite the good chinese data. dipping below 1.04 earlier on. we had retail sales data that was a li